²² For soon I must go down that road
    from which I will never return.

¹⁰ “But when people die, their strength is gone.
    They breathe their last, and then where are they?

¹⁴ Can the dead live again?
    If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
    and I would eagerly await the release of death.

⁵ You have decided the length of our lives.
    You know how many months we will live,
    and we are not given a minute longer.